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At 13 years old, Elaine was featured on The Herald and The Evening Times for having won second place at Glasgow Music Festival's Piano Solos A category, despite being the youngest competitor. At fourteen years old, she won second prize at Biggars' Music Competition in the grade 6-8 category. This led to a feature in Hutchesons' Grammar School's prospectus and online website. By choosing Music as a subject for her Standard Grade exam, she achieved a 1 (meaning an A). Two years later, she achieved 100 percent for the piano discipline in her Higher exam.

A video of Elaine's performance at Glasgow's Royal Exchange Square was posted on YouTube and it accumulated 1.6 million views within a year. Elaine's piano playing has been complimented by Britain's Got Talent's third place winner, Kieran Gaffney. In 2016, Elaine made an online collaboration video with fellow YouTube musicians: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEOGQj1yOPQ

In 2005, Elaine participated in a charity concert where all the proceeds went to Red Cross. In 2007, she participated in a fundraising concert at her chinese school for the Sichuan earthquake victims. From then on, Elaine regularly donated money to causes, including the Japan tsunami victims and the Haiti earthquake victims. In 2008, Elaine participated in a 3.5K run to raise funds for Red Cross. In 2013, she performed at a concert which helped raise funds for a local church to purchase a new piano. In 2016, Elaine raised £743.95 for the Nepal earthquake victims. In 2018, Elaine donated £750 to Syrian war refugees.

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